The fighting in the game is broken into 3 different types: the typical RPG group fights, army battles that take place on a grid, and duels. The second type of fight (army battles) happen a few times throughout the story, during them you control an army, which consists of you moving groups around a map to fight another group of enemies. Each group has a few generals that can fight together or separate, so there is some strategy involved in how you move and place your generals. The last type is the duels which I only ran into a handful of times, these consist of guessing whether or not you should attack your opponent or counter them. If you survive the duel long enough tension will build and it will allow you to do a special move. The first type of fight (the typical RPG group fight), happens randomly as you travel through the map or during specific encounters. The group of characters you choose appear opposite the group of enemies. At the top of the screen, it will show you the order of who is going when so you can do some planning on how you decide best to fight. You will then get the option of either fighting, auto, or fleeing. Fleeing is just an attempt to run from the battle. Auto is basically letting AI perform the battle for you. Fight is where you choose everything manually. When you fight manually, you can choose to either do a normal attack, defend, use a rune-lens (basically a lens used for battle like magic or special moves), or use an item. Once you choose all the option, the current round of the battle begins. If enemies are still alive at the end of the round, the choices begin again until either the enemies are destroyed, or your team is.

So you collected so many people some of them they won't fight with you, so what do you do with them? Build a city of course! As your party begins to grow, more and more people can build shops or other things for Nowa and his team to use as long as you have the funds to pay to build them. You can build one of every type of shop found throughout the world making it so much more convenient than having to travel the world to find what it is you are looking for. Though even when you build the shops you have to upgrade them to get the newer and better stuff.

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is a 2.5D game, meaning that while the backgrounds are 3D, the characters in it are 2D. The backgrounds are very massive and very intricate and definitely very grand and visually appealing, even the character designs are amazing. Other than the generic NPCs (Non player characters), each of the heroes are unique. And while it can take a little getting used to seeing 2D set against 3D, the game pulls it off well. I also really enjoy the music, and if you want, there is even a place you can build in your town that will allow you to change the music for battles. The game requires a controller to play and for the most part the controls are pretty solid, there were a few issues I ran into. Generally I use an xbox controller's analogue stick, but in one of the mini games (racing) the analogue stick didn't work correctly and would constantly turn me the incorrect way. I found that I had to use the dpad arrows in order to steer just to make it through the race in a decent amount of time. There were a few other bugs I found in the game as well. One such bug was, during one of the other mini games I was selecting an item and pushed the analogue stick to the right for a bit too long, then the game it started quickly cycling through the items and killed the sound while I finished off the mini game. Another bug I found was that the game would randomly crash, and I don't know why. It wasn't often, and it might have happened about 5 times while I played through the game, but it was usually in different spots doing different things. Like one time I was just running through a town, another time it happened during battle so it wasn't something that I could figure out. Another strange bug I found was in a dungeon, I would go to a different room, the camera would pan to Nowa but it would start outside the room so it would look like I was viewing them through a wall until the camera stopped.

The story and gameplay itself was very mild, no swearing, no sex, no nudity. There is a hot spring and you can choose the characters that go in, but all you see is maybe the top of their shoulders at the most so overall it's very tame in that aspect. There is magic and some magic symbols throughout the game. They talk about gods/goddesses at some point though not too often as there doesn't seem to be much of an established religion in the game. The game has violence against humans and monsters, though there is no blood. Throughout the story there is talk of assassinations, murder and human experimentation though none of it is ever shown on screen. There is one character that seems to be flirty with both men and women and there is a character that looks like they dress like a girl but its really a boy that likes to be cute. He even yells at the main character when he is called a girl. Morality-wise, this game is extremely tame in comparison to most games these days and I am pleasantly surprised that they do such a good job of it for a fantasy world!

Overall, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is a good game with a fun story, great music, and lovely backgrounds; though it definitely could use a bit more fine tuning in my opinion. But if what I wrote does not dissuade you (it didn't dissuade me, just some minor annoyances) and you enjoy JRPGs, this game is definitely worth checking out!